IDF warns of war in north

Military officials assess that while Israel’s enemies aren’t planning to launch a deliberate war anytime soon, even a minor security incident along the northern border could trigger a major conflagration.

Officials say that, in this context, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah poses a major threat, and assess that a war would entail rocket attacks, attempts to kidnap soldiers and attacks against Israeli Navy ships.

“The next war will be different,” a military official says. “Hezbollah has turned most of the Shiite villages in southern Lebanon into [military] posts. They tend more toward subterranean battle and moving the battle into our territory. Hezbollah was digging tunnels even before Hamas [started].”